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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Fraud email example:

From: david okanga <david_okanga2006@yahoo.fr>
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 08:50:23 +0100 (CET)
Subject: RE : Email










Dear ,

Thank you for your mail.I want you to understand that, I just contacted you because my spirit accepts doing the transaction with you.
As regards to your request for the fund to be invested in your company, it is okay, provided that i will have what is due for me.But i still need that assurance that the fund will be safe.
Also would have sent the copy of my passport as you requested today,but it happens that the whole workers passport and other instruments for identify, are being kept in the banks custody for security reason. So i will see if there is a way i will rectrieve it and send it to you.

Meanwhile for us to achieve this deal, when i hear from you, i will programme your name in the data base as the inheritor of the fund in our system.Secondly, i will give you the contact of the office responsible for the release of the fund in our bank for you to contact them,Before that i will tell you how to approach them so that the fund will easily be released to you.

Your contacting them is just a formality as i will do all underground work here to perfect everything here concerning fronting you as the inheritor of the fund.
Another thing is that your bank account will be needed for the transfer of the fund.But if you are not comfortable in providing your existing account, you can open a new account for this particular transaction.Also the idea of you opening a joint account for both of us is not wellcome, because if you send the information to our bank for the transfer, and if my name appears there, they will know that i am involved and it might affect my job. So it is better an account with your name alone.

One assurance i am giving you is that everything will be done in a legitimate and official way.When.
Meanwhile for little introduction of myself, I am 40years old, married with two children.I have been working in the bank for the past 15 years.So i will like to know more about you.

With the arrangement i made, it will take only 5 working days for the fund to be in your account upon the commencement of this transaction.
I tried your number, but it did not go through. Call me on +22507603859.
Have a nice day.
Mr David
















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